Chapter 97

Clarissa

The werecats had emptied the town center, setting up tables enough for all the villagers. Their werecat escort led to the triangular table in the center, where they arranged places for them to sit together. 

While full, long tables surrounded theirs, this one had only enough seats for the sages and their familiars. There was no head of the table, and only the familiar would sit next to any particular Onyx Sage. Clarissa hoped it would limit the disagreements between Blake and Stefan. Along the outside of the seating tables, food stations were set up. 

The smell that came from them made her mouth water and her stomach grumble. She came hungry, but she a